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Patented July 28,. 1885.

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MOSQUITO BAR CANOPY.

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CHARLES SNOIV, OF GLASTONBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH 1?. SMITH, OF SAME PLACE.

MOSQUITO-BAR CANOPY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 323,227, dated July 28, 1885.

Application filed February 29, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known. that I, CHARLES Snow, of Glastonbury, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mosquito- Bar Canopies; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, whereby a person skilled in the art can make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

Like letters in the figures indicate the same parts.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a bed, with I 5 my improved cover or canopy attached and extended. Fig. 2 is a detail view in crosssect-ion through the foot-board and the improved attachment on plane denoted by line X X of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view of a 2 part of the head-board on plane denoted by line Y Y of Fig. 1.

The ordinary method of protecting people while asleep from the annoyance caused by mosquitoes and flies has been by suspending 5 a piece of so-called mosquito-bar or netting from a central point above the bed, support ing the netting by a central frame orhoop and spreading it at the bottom so as to envelop the bed. Such devices are inconvenient 0 in many ways, and the object of my invention is to provide a simple and compact device with means for attaching a mosquito-net to a bed or the like article of furniture in such a way as to keep the netting out of the way in 5 the daytime, but always convenient for use when needed to cover the bed.

My invention consists in the combination of a netting and means for folding it and also holding it in an extended position as a covering for the bed, as more particularly hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter a denotes a bed or a like article of furniture; I), the head-board; c, the foot-board; d, the side rails; e, a netting of ordinary material and construction; f, a socket, preferably metallic, and attached to the inner side of the side rails of the bed and near the foot-board. These sock- At intervals along this roller h are attached cords i, which cords are wound about the roller and are fast at their outer end to the cross-bar 7 Thi crossbar bears any suitable device, as knob Z,

by means of which it may be temporarily secured to the socket-bracket m, fastened to the head-boardb at any desired height. The spring of the roller is of such strength that when the parts are in the extended positio n shown in Fig. 1 the cords i will be held with sufficient tension to support the netting e, which is connected to the crossbar and to the footboard of the bed, and which falls at the sides in any desired length.

when the cross-bar is lifted from its connection with the head-board, the recoil of the spring winds the cord upon the roller and folds the netting in more or less regular manner upon the foot-board. Thisposition 0f the roller on or near the foot-board is the most convenient one, as it leaves the bed free for making up or changing in the customary manner; but the roller may obviously be applied to the head-board and the device operate equally well.

My improved device will operate equally Well on cradles, lounges, and similar articles of furniture, and in place of the-cords I may use wire or any other equivalent material.

I ciai 1n as my invention 1. In combination with the frame of abed or like article of furniture, the spring roller 71 supported on standards 9 near one end of the frame, the cords Leach secured to the roller at one end and to a cross-bar, k, at the other end, bearingthe knob Z and the socket-bracket on fast to the end of the frame opposite that supporting the roller, and the netting c, all substantially as described.

2. In combination, a bed-frame,having headboard 6 and foot-board 0, standards 9, fast near one end of the frame and bearing a spring roller, 71, the mosq uito-netting e, cords t, supporting the netting when extended and attached to the roller h and cross-bar k, and the cross-bar k,bearingaknob or equivalent means for attaching it to a bracket, m, fast to the frame, all substantially as described.

CHARLES SN OIV.

Witnesses:

P. HENRY GOODRIOH, WILLIAM S. GosLEE, 

